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Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?

— Franz Grillparzer Notebooks and Diaries (1820)

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I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The irreligious are more religious than they themselves know, and the religious are less so than they think.

Aphorism (1857)

He is like all the rest: a slave to profit, a master only to his bent for negotiating the best deal.

Libussa (1872)

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental—far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

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